Caroline Wadhams

National Security Senior Policy Analyst

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Caroline Wadhams is a Senior Policy Analyst for National Security at American Progress. She focuses on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and terrorism issues and leads the Center for American Progress-Foreign Policy Terrorism Index. Prior to joining the Center, she served as a legislative assistant on foreign policy issues for Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI). Wadhams also worked at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. as the Assistant Director for the Meetings Program and in New York as a Research Associate on national security issues. Prior to the Council on Foreign Relations, she worked at ABC News in New York.

Her overseas experience includes work with the International Rescue Committee in Sierra Leone and two years in Ecuador and Chile. She served as a U.S. election observer of Pakistan’s parliamentary elections in February 2008. She is a 2005 Manfred Wörner Fellow with the German Marshall Fund and a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. She received a master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Wadhams has been a guest analyst with numerous international, national, and local news outlets, including BBC, C-Span, CBC, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, FOX, Reuters, and NPR.

Four installments of the Center for American Progress-Foreign Policy Terrorism Index have been released thus far.
The Terrorism Index I , June 14, 2006
The Terrorism Index II, February 13, 2007
The Terrorism Index III, August 20, 2007
The Terrorism Index IV, August 18, 2008

Email: cwadhams /@\ americanprogress.org